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SCENE III

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Cyprus. The Garden of the Castle.

[Enter Desdemona, Cassio, and Emilia.]

DESDEMONA

Be thou assured, good Cassio, I will do

All my abilities in thy behalf.

EMILIA

Good madam, do: I warrant it grieves my husband

As if the cause were his.

DESDEMONA

O, that’s an honest fellow.—Do not doubt, Cassio,

But I will have my lord and you again

As friendly as you were.

CASSIO

Bounteous madam,

Whatever shall become of Michael Cassio,

He’s never anything but your true servant.

DESDEMONA

I know’t,—I thank you. You do love my lord:

You have known him long; and be you well assur’d

He shall in strangeness stand no farther off

Than in a politic distance.

CASSIO

Ay, but, lady,

That policy may either last so long,

Or feed upon such nice and waterish diet,

Or breed itself so out of circumstance,

That, I being absent, and my place supplied,

My general will forget my love and service.

DESDEMONA

Do not doubt that; before Emilia here

I give thee warrant of thy place: assure thee,

If I do vow a friendship, I’ll perform it

To the last article: my lord shall never rest;

I’ll watch him tame, and talk him out of patience;

His bed shall seem a school, his board a shrift;

I’ll intermingle everything he does

With Cassio’s suit: therefore be merry, Cassio;

For thy solicitor shall rather die

Than give thy cause away.